"cheapen" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe when something has become less valuable, or to describe something as being of low quality or value. For example: "The increased availability of low cost knockoffs has cheapened the company's original designs."
He had made no attempt to hide his fear that a colour magazine would cheapen the quality of his paper.
While viewers may wonder why celebrities were invited to lend their star power to these causes, Kristof – who admits to having been "worried that celebrities might cheapen the causes that we care very deeply about" – was ultimately grateful to have their help.
Building it alongside existing roads would certainly cheapen things as well as simplifying them, but critics who are poring over Mr Musk's cost estimates, for everything from land permits to the construction itself, doubt the numbers stack up (though to be fair, both his electric cars and his space rockets have come in on budget).
Businessmen quibble that they could better tap fast-growing markets in Asia if the BoJ did more to cheapen the yen.
But by wrongfooting the speculators, the authorities hope that the expectation of appreciation will not remain a cause of that appreciation.At the meeting in which it decided to cheapen its currency, the central bank also decided to enlarge the yuan's trading band later this year, according to a statement cited by the Journal.
And assisted dying doesn't cheapen life; rather, it means fewer people have to suffer painful, dehumanising, and costly deaths.For many patients, simply having access to death is an enormous source of relief.
Yet such events can simultaneously seem to cheapen the feat if even Philip Humber can do it, maybe it's not so special after all.
The central bank has recently been intervening to cheapen the currency so as to wrongfoot speculators accustomed to steady appreciation.
But using the corporate parts bin is a quick way to cheapen a brand.And then there is Volkswagen, pride of the European predators.
In the 1980s many emerging-market central banks faced sharply appreciating exchange rates and bought up dollars with newly created cash to cheapen their currencies.
First, a lower interest rate reduces a currency's relative expected return, so it has to cheapen until expected future appreciation overcomes the unfavorable interest rate differential.
